The world of Dante
Gallery Maps Music Timeline Search Teacher Resources About INFERNO CANTO 1 INFERNO CANTO 1 Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita 1.1 When I had journeyed half of our life's way, mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, I found myself within a shadowed forest, ché la diritta via era smarrita. for I had lost the path that does not stray. Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura 1.4 Ah, it is hard to speak of what it was, esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte that savage forest, dense and difficult, che nel pensier rinova la paura! which even in recall renews my fear: Tant' è amara che poco è più morte; 1.7 so bitter-death is hardly more severe! ma per trattar del ben ch'i' vi trovai, But to retell the good discovered there, dirò de l'altre cose ch'i' v'ho scorte. I'll also tell the other things I saw. Io non so ben ridir com' i' v'intrai, 1.10 I cannot clearly say how I had entered tant' era pien di sonno a quel punto the wood; I was so full of sleep just at
The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20260220110720/https://worldofdante.iath.virginia.edu/comedy/dante/inferno.xml/1.1 INFERNO CANTO 1 INFERNO CANTO 1 Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita 1.1 I When I had journeyed half of our life's way, mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, I found myself within a shadowed forest, ché la diritta via era smarrita. for I had lost the path that does not stray. Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura 1.4 Ah, it is hard to speak of what it was, esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte that savage forest, dense and difficult, che nel pensier…
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